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‘The finest set of cup and ring marks in existence’: the story of the Cochno Stone, West Dunbartonshire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Cochno Stone is one of the most extensive and highly decorated prehistoric rock-art outcrops in Britain. It is located on the northern urban fringe of West Dunbartonshire beside Faifley, Clydebank, in a park in the foothills of the Kilpatrick Hills ...
Brophy, Kenneth
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1. Ways of Placing Megaliths in Space in European Neolithic

open access: yesReview of Artistic Education, 2023
Monoliths of impressive dimensions, menhirs, dolmens and cromlechs are examples of the megalithic civilization which existed in the area of Afro-Eurasia, from Neolithic up to the Bronze Age included.
Olaru Ioana - Iulia
doaj   +1 more source

La Edad del Cobre en las tierras de Antequera (Málaga): introducción a los patrones de asentamiento y dinámicas sociales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Antequera (Málaga) is home to one of the most important Neolithic and Copper Age megalithic landscapes in Europe, as proven by its recent declaration as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 15th 2016. This declaration highlights the need to push ahead
García Sanjuán, Leonardo   +3 more
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Morphological and biomechanical adaptations of larval mandibles in Trichoptera (Insecta)

open access: yesPhysiological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 85-114, March 2026.
Mandible morphology differs between predators and grazers: predators show pointed incisors, grazers sharp edges and setae. Mechanical properties depend on cuticle tanning, not elemental reinforcement. Functional mandible types reflect feeding strategies, with predators specialized for prey capture and grazers for scraping and collecting.
Patrick Below   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Picturing Megaliths in Twentieth- Century Swedish Archaeology

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2000
ln this paper I will begin a discussion about the ways in which megaliths appear in archaeological images. My discussion of examples is not comprehensive and the selection of images far from complete, but I hope nevertheless to present some key elements
Gustav Wollentz
doaj   +1 more source

Preliminary Archaeological Survey in the Salangthel Hill in Manipur, India

open access: yesAncient Asia, 2021
An archaeological survey was conducted in the Salangthel Hill, in Manipur (India), in 2019 to assess the nature of material records. The survey documented megaliths and engraved marks on stones such as footprints, female genital organs, and depressed ...
Oinam Premchand Singh
doaj   +1 more source

The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction au premier volet « Plateformes funéraires et cercles de pierres dressées en Afrique de l’Ouest »

open access: yesAfrique Archéologie Arts, 2017
Communications presented during a session dedicated to “African Megaliths: a very present past” during the SAfA meeting at Toulouse (June 2016), will be here published in the form of two thematic inserts within the present and the next issue of the ...
Luc Laporte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zagadnienie tzw. domów kultowych w megalitycznym obrządku pogrzebowym ludności kultury pucharów lejkowatych w Polsce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article is a summary of the state of the art concerning the so-called cult houses discovered in megaliths of the Funnel Beaker culture (hereinafter referred to as TRB from German Trichterbecherkultur) in its Eastern and South-Eastern groups.
Socha, Krzysztof
core   +2 more sources

Identifying Indigenous People's Grieving and Funeral Practices as Components for Establishing a Grief Support Framework: An Integrative Literature Review

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 155-173, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Grieving and funeral practices form an integral component of the culture of indigenous people. Although studies on specific indigenous grief support frameworks could not be found, the authors did find certain studies on the grieving and funeral practices of indigenous people.
Rehanna Felix   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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